It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots,… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
